The Oregonian newspaper reported that Jerry Reinhardt filed the suit seeking $49,000 for pain and suffering, medical bills and lost work. The man claims that just before his flight from Portland, Ore. to Las Vegas was to take off, a fellow passenger tried stuffing an oversized bag into the overheard bin above Reinhardt.

When he couldn’t do it, a flight attendant came over to help. As they were stuffing the bag into the compartment, it slipped out of both of their hands and fell on Reinhardt, who claims he suffered a compressed disc, and strains and tears to his muscles in his back and neck — resulting in headaches, dizziness, nausea and decreased range in motion, the newspaper reported.

The $49,000 suit encompasses $10,000 for medical bills, $5,000 for lost income from work and $34,000 for pain and suffering, the Oregonian said.

Southwest did not respond to a request for comment.

Separately, in England, a woman traveling on Thomas Cook Airlines was knocked unconscious by a shoe that fell from an overhead bin. Another passenger opened the compartment during a flight from Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands to Birmingham, England, and a large shoe fell out of one of his bags.

The plane had to make an emergency landing in Lisbon. The woman and her husband were taken off the plane and she was treated and released, and caught a flight home the next day.

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